Carrots and Blue Cheese Dip Author:Carrots and Bleu Cheese Tara Birch In her first book of poems, Carrots & Bleu Cheese Dip, Tara Birch writes from inside the walls of suburbia with a laser beam, pulling off the difficult task of cutting through its Sheetrock of pretense, without destroying the underlying frame. What is left is a vivisection of suburban life, with all of its plumbing and wiring exposed.